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(04/12/21 6:05am)
Every year, a new class arrives at Tufts, bringing fresh change to our community on the Hill. It is too early to know what contributions the Class of 2025 will make when they arrive on campus, but they have already made history in one way — the Class of 2025 was not required to submit standardized test scores as part of the application process.
(04/08/21 4:33am)
When Tufts announced the spring calendar in October, it was difficult to imagine what the absence of a full spring break would feel like.The revised calendar meant that students had a longer winter break and more time to quarantine after arriving in January, but also that the semester’s normal week of recuperation would be replaced with a single long weekend. Now, after a marathon of nine weeks of rigorous coursework and exams, students are experiencing the serious effects of burnout created by that decision.
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(04/02/21 4:32pm)
(04/02/21 5:07am)
In any year, Tufts’ resident assistants wear many hats. They are students, peers and employees, tasked with creating safe, accessible and enjoyable residential life. But during the pandemic, RAs have shouldered the additional burden of balancing typical dorm life with the maintenance of a safe and healthy student body. With every policy change, it is RAs whose labor goes into finding that balance, a process that often involves putting themselves in uncomfortable and dangerous situations at the expense of their mental and physical health. RAs represent some of the best of the Tufts community, and given the additional burdens presented by the pandemic, it is imperative that Tufts listen to their voices and be more responsive to their needs.
(03/31/21 5:35am)
The dominant public health issue of the past year has been, without question, the COVID-19 virus. But during the pandemic, some of the public health crises that once captured headlines have wreaked justas much havoc as they did before this pandemic — among them, the opioid epidemic. As the United States moves forward with its vaccine rollout, offering the hope of ending the pandemic, it is also important to consider how opioid use has upended the nation with no cure in sight.
(03/25/21 5:33am)
Three months into 2021, we are at the one-year mark of when the COVID-19 pandemic first shook the Tufts community. But from the earliest days of the pandemic, when former President Donald Trump began his rhetorical attacks on the “Chinese virus,” the spread of the pandemic has been accompanied by an increase in xenophobic attacks on Asian Americans. By the end of 2020, anti-Asian hate crimes hadincreased by 150% in major U.S. cities relative to the previous year — a statistic that looks all the more dire when we take into account the fact that hate crime data is oftenunderreported. This wave of hate has spilled into the new year, and just last week it included the depravedmurder of eight people, including six women of Asian descent, in Atlanta.
(03/15/21 6:37am)
This week marks one year since the COVID-19 pandemic forced students to leave Tufts’ campus last spring. A year with no in-person graduation, a year with no in-person pre-orientation, a year that changed the way we dine, a year that changed the way we go to class, a year that changed the way we connect with the people we care about. And with every day that goes by, it seems less likely that we will ever “return to normal” — any post-pandemic world will be radically different than the one we left behind a year ago. So as we reflect on all that we’ve lost in the past year, we should also take a moment to think about what kind of new “normal” we want to create for the years ahead.
(03/12/21 5:01am)
On Feb. 17, University President Anthony Monaco released a statement to the Tufts community via email announcing recommendations made by the “Tufts as an Anti-Racist Institution” initiative. The report included five separate workstreams concentrating on topics ranging from artwork to curriculums; one workstream that warrants particular scrutiny, however, is the Campus Safety and Policing workstream. The report comes after a year whose events have illustrated the danger policing can pose to marginalized communities, and it matters that Tufts revisit how it approaches policing if the university wants to make its campus one that is safe and truly anti-racist.
(03/04/21 6:35am)
Following nearly a yearlong effort to produce a COVID-19 vaccine, the Food and Drug Administration approved thePfizer-BioNTech vaccine and theModerna vaccine in December 2020, a hopeful note to the end of a dark year. That month, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts initiated Phase 1 of Gov. Charlie Baker’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan, and the first doses were administered to health care workers and long-term care residents and staff. Since then, some members of the Tufts community have sporadically become eligible for vaccination — first,health care workers at Tufts Medical Center, and later,first responders,including the Tufts University Police Department and Tufts Emergency Medical Services.
(02/26/21 6:05am)
Over recent years, the world has been witness to the devastating consequences of climate change. Driven by the burning of fossil fuels, this past decade became the hottest since record keeping began almost 150 years ago, and forecasts for the decades to come look dire. This is a problem that every social institution has an obligation to address, but particularly for Tufts — a university that touts a reputation for civic engagement — the fight against climate change is a test of its commitment to the principles it espouses.
(02/22/21 6:03am)
February is Black History Month. It is an occasion to affirm the importance of Black lives and celebrate Black communities whose voices are all too often erased in whitewashed accounts of history. And for the Tufts community in particular, it should be a moment to emphasize that Black history deserves acknowledgement within the histories of Boston, Medford and Somerville and that Black voices deserve amplification in Tufts’ faculty and student body.
(12/10/20 9:02am)
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy recently announced a series of marketing changes, includingrenaming the school to “Fletcher, The Graduate School of Global Affairs,” adopting a new seal and tagline and creating a part-time degree. This decision, made public on Nov. 16, was understandably met with widespread anger and concern from a number of alumni and current students. Although Fletcher reverted some of these changes last week and opened channels for community input, the university’s handling of the decision both before and after its announcement demonstrated a disregard for transparency and collaboration with community members. In its current reevaluationof the rebranding and future marketing decisions, the university must strive to conduct a collaborative, transparent decision-making process that incorporates student, alumni and faculty perspectives.
(12/07/20 7:01am)
Our community faced myriad challenges this semester, ranging from the spread of COVID-19 on our campus, to social isolation, to a divisive presidential election. While many of us may want to put this semester and the rest of 2020 behind us, it is still important to take a moment to critically reflect upon the issues that our community faced this semester as well as the change we must commit to fighting for in the coming year.
(12/04/20 7:01am)
As the end of the semester approaches, students face the usual final exams, projects and papers amid an unusual finals season. In addition to increasing academic rigor, students have endured immense personal challenges this semester, including strains on mental and physical health as a result of the pandemic.The recent rise of COVID-19 cases and close contacts on campus further compounds this stress. Thus far, many professors have displayed an understanding of these circumstances as they have adapted to hybrid platforms. As we navigate the final weeks of this semester, it is vital that faculty continue this trend of empathy and flexibility by prioritizing student well-being and adjusting class policies to reduce stress.
(12/01/20 6:02am)
Tufts’ campus has seen a substantialrise in cases of COVID-19 in recent weeks.In an email sent to the community on Nov. 15, Tufts establishedincreased restrictions for students studying in person in response to a concerning number of new cases and close contacts. Considering the difficulty of remote learning andlack of means to decompress, the prevailing sense of exhaustion among Tufts students is not surprising; however, it is still critical that we remain vigilant in following university protocols by wearing masks, social distancing and avoiding gatherings. By neglecting these measures, we risk jeopardizing the future of on-campus operations — in the spring semester and beyond.